scribe engaged in writing A Coppie-Booke Of the Nervest and Most Useful Hands With Easie Rules whereby those that can Read may Learn to Write of themselves 
 London printed for john Hancock and are to be sold at the first shop In Popes-head-Alley Next to Cornhill 
 Where also there is sold a New Shorthand Book Invented by 
 Mr. Metcalfe very Exact speedy and Easy to be learned in 
 2. or three days without any other Teacher as many in this 
 City can testify.  
 quill held in right hand Rules for Writing, and to make Ink.  
Hold your pen as you see it placed in this Hand and Pen-Keepe your Body upright and look straight.  
Rule your paper with double lines to keep your lettors even All lettors of Compassing must be of equal proportions viz. a. d. e. g. o. s. b. h. q. etc.  
All lettors with tails or heads must be of equal depth. as g. f. y. p. g. s. etc: to make one lettor by another thus (i. r. t. n. u. m.) (c. e. o. g. g) (b. d. h. k.) to make INK Take a pint of Vinegar or rain water gauls beaten an ounce boil it half an hour then put in an ounce of Vitrall beaten seethe it a little when you have took it of put in an ounc of gum a little alum beaten stir it till it be cold after it hath stood a while strain it then use it.  

Secretary Hand  
Brian Crook Daniel Edmunde Fraunci● 
 Gregory Henery John King Lowe Merriman 
 North Owen Percy Quick Robertz Smith● 
 Tailor Vane Weaver Χρofer Yeoman Zouch   

Roman Letters  
a. a. b. b. b. c. c. c. d. d. d. e. e. e. f. f. g. g. g. h. h. h. h. i 
 y. k. k. k. l. l. ll. m. m. n. n. n. o. o. o. o. p. p. p. q. r. r. r 
 s. ss. s●. t. t. tt. t. v. v. u. u w. w. x. x. x. y. y. y. z. z  
A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. K. L. L 
 M. N. O. P. Q. R. S. T. V W. X. Y.   

Roman Hand  
Awake Blessed Conserver Defend me Ever 
 more from Graceless & Hellish Imaginations 
 Keep me in Laudable Meditations Namely 
 to Observe Piety and Quietness. &c   

Running Letters  
A. A. a. a. a. B B B B b b b 
 C. C. C. c c. cco. c. C. c. c. d. d. d. d. d. d. d. d. 
 E. e. ee. e. E. E. ee. f. ff. f f. ff. f. f. G. G 
 g. g. gi'. g. g. g. g. g. H. H. h. h. h. I. I. I. I. I. i 
 c. c. c. o. o. o. oo. oo. o. o. o. a. a. a. a. q. q. q. d. d. d. d. d. d. g. g. g. x. x. x. 
 l. l. l. ll. b. b. b. f. f. f. f. f. f. h. h. h. k. k. k. k. k. k. ss. ss. ss. st. st. st. 
 I I. i. t. t. tt. g. g. g. n. n. n. m. m. m. st. st. st. u. u. u. w. w. w. x. x. x. y. y. y. 
 A. a. b. c. cc. d. d. e. f. f. g. g. h. h. h. i. k. k. l. m. n. o. p. q. r. st. st. st. sh. tt●. v. u. w. ●●● ●. ae. y. z.  
A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. K. L. M. M. N. 
 N. N. O. P. Q. R. S. T. V. V W. X. Y. Z.  
Laus Deo   

Jttallian Letters.  
A. A. a. a. B. B. bbb. C c. c. c. D. d. d. d. E. 
 E e. e. e. F. f. ff. G. g. g. g. g. H. i. H. h●● I 
 i. i i. I. K. ki L. L. m m n n n m L ●. M. m n. N 
 N n n n. O. o. o. n o P. P. p. p. ● p. Q. q. q. q. q. 
 R. R. r. r. rs. rs. S. sss. sss. s. st. s. s T. t. tt. r. at. V 
 uw. v. v. u W. w. w. W. w. w. w. X. xxx. x. Y. y. 
 Y. y. y. y. Z. z. z. z. zz. A. B. abbc. G. M. N.   

Running Hand  
If you w reccount from the very beginning, and turn 
 over the Histories of all times, yo w shall find no man 
 in the compass of the earth matching Alexander  
with a small handful of men he achieved mighty matter 
 and overthrews great people, nay he wept when he 
 heard the Philosopher say that there were many   

Italian Hand  
He that laboureth to instruct the mind with good 
 and commendable qualities and virtuous and 
 honest discipline, shall purchase praise with   

Mixed Hand  
The mind that is evermore declineing from virtue, shallbe 
 continually stammered and utterly confounded, and 
 consumed in his own ways, but a virtuous man will upon   

A A B B C D E F F 
 G H H I K L M 
 N O P Q R S S 
 T V W X Y Z  

Αα Ββ Γγ Εε Ζζ Ηη Θθ Ιι Κκ Λλ Μμ 
 Νν Ξξ Οο ΠΠ ω χ Ρρ ΣϹ σ ς Ττ Υυ Χχ Ψψ Ωω   

א ב ג ד ה ו ז ח ט י כ ל מ ם נ ן ס ע פ ף צ ץ ק ך ר ש ת    

A a b c d e f g h i k l m oh p q r s t v w v y  
All that thine Hand findeth to do 
 do it quickly: for there is neither  
●… his Indenture